This year [email protected] published more than 120 posts, covering everything from our work in human-centered design (HCD) to advances in remote sensing.

We featured digital experts from organizations such as Panoply, BanQu, Omelas, and Bamba, and had almost 40,000 page views. We continue to explore the potential of digital technology across sectors, geographies, clients, and constituents in the blog and in the work that we do.

In our final blog of 2016 we reviewed the top five most read articles of the year. With our audience and total number of blog posts expanding, we’ll look at our top 10 of 2017, which showcase a broad range of topics, content, and writers.

Lush Green Remote Sensing—Last winter, we wrote a series of posts on remote sensing. This article looks at the method of using satellite imagery to identify healthy plant vegetation from space.

Open Source Series Part 1: What is Open Source?—In this introductory article to a series on open source technology, we explored the definition of open source as a concept, and discussed some of the pros and cons of relying on open source technology for professional work.

I Made a Facebook Chatbot (And You Can, Too)—Have you considered building a chatbot to reach wider audiences? In this article we discussed our efforts to build a chatbot that integrates with Facebook Messenger, and its applications to the job market in Indonesia.

Meet Honduras’s Innovation Community—During a trip to Honduras, our team visited an innovation community meetup in Tegucigalpa. In this article, we showcase the innovators and companies we met during our visit, and conclude that top-down, proposal-defined, pre-proscribed solutions are out; co-created, tech-enabled, iterative solutions are in.

Stay tuned for what 2018 brings. In the past months, we have been researching the application of blockchain to some of our development projects and we started to leverage new machine learning tools. We are working on new products for the coming year. We will continue to use this blog to investigate emerging trends in digital technologies for global development, hold conversations with some of the field’s foremost experts, and deliver innovative content to you on a weekly basis.